Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1916 — U. S. Has 21,000,000 Able-Bodied Citizens of Military Age. [ARTICLE]

U. S. Has 21,000,000 Able-Bodied Citizens of Military Age.

Washington, July 5. —A census bureau table issued yesterday estimates the number of able-bodied men of military age in the United States at about 21,000,000 men. The estimate is based on the assumption that/there has been an increase of 10 per cent in the population since 1910, when the total male population over 18 years and under 46 was 18,183,000. Of this number 14,224,000 were native whites, 2,857,000 were foreign-born whites who had become naturalized; 2,052,000 were negroes, and 50,000 were Indians. It is estimated there are in Indiana 596,682 male citizens of military age. During the Civil war, when the population of the country exclusive of the seceding states was less than one-fourth as great as the total present population, the number of men serving in the Northern army at one time or another, was 2,500,000. There are four states, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Illinois, where the men of military age number more than 1,000,000. In geograpical subdivisions the total for the Northern states is 13,094,415, for the Southern states, 6,006,139, and for the Western states, 1,970,322.